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Local publisher Chelsea Green brings us another rollicking volume by Diane Wilson, a Gulf Coast shrimper and author of An Unreasonable Woman. The full title Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus gives the gist of the story line. One of ... (more)the best Southern writers of her generation, her voice twangs with a style and accent all its own, as true and individual as her boundless originality and wild youth.

Archer Mayor returns to the Norwich Bookstore with the nineteenth novel in his popular Joe Gunther detective series. Connecting the dots between drug running along the Maine coast, a police officer shot during a routine traffic stop in northwestern Vermont, and Joe’s new sweetheart’s own personal ... (more)tragedy combine for a page-turning story told as only Archer can. As the New York Times Book Review says, “Mayor is a devil of a plotter.”

David Macaulay, recent transplant to Norwich, reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. Years of hands-on investigative research have given him a unique perspective to lead his readers on a visual journey through the workings of the body. Each beautifully illustrated spread details ... (more)aspects of our complex structure, explaining the function of each and offering up-close glimpses, detailed cross-sections, and perspectives — and even a little humor along the way. Please note, this event is being held at the Norwich Congregational Church. The admission fee ($20) and a portion of book sales will be donated to the Norwich Public Library. Tickets will go on sale October 7th. Visit alteredbooks.ameridane.org/events.php for more information about the art show UNCOVERED.

Writing with the same descriptive flair that has won his novels and regional writing so much praise, Lyme author Walter Wetherell ruminates on topics ranging from his son’s senior year of high school, the nature of soccer’s appeal, and the balance act known as parenting. Soccer Dad is simultaneously ... (more)the candid reflections of a devoted father and a diehard soccer fan.

First came Wicked, then Son of a Witch and now Gregory Maguire has penned A Lion Among Men, the story of the cub that became the Oz character we all know as the Cowardly Lion. In this highly creative re-imagining of the world of Oz on the brink of civil war, we meet an array of fantastic characters who ... (more)delight and challenge each other and us.

The Norwich Bookstore is coordinating with the Dartmouth College Environmental Studies Department to host Terry Tempest Williams at The George Link, Jr. Environmental Awareness Lecture. In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous ... (more)chronicle of finding beauty in our world. With poetic prose, she examines the intricacies of mosaics in Italy, the complex human interaction with prairie dogs in the American Southwest, and the richness of healing in a small town in Rwanda after the genocide, and weaves these disparate threads into a meditation on how the natural and human worlds both collide and connect in violence and beauty. Please note, this event is being held at Filene Auditorium at Dartmouth College, and is free and open to the public. Space is limited and seats will NOT be reserved.

Ben Ratliff, who has family in Norwich, is the acclaimed music critic for the New York Times. In The Jazz Ear, he writes about his interviews with Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, and other jazz greats. His probing, empathic questions reveal insights about how jazz is ... (more)conceptualized and how subtle variations in generation, training, and attitude define this unique way of making music. Trombonist Bob Brookmeyer will join us for the evening.